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🕑 Added 2022-12-28 01:41:19 +0000 UTCI picked up a couple of neat things and decided to make a video about them in time for christmas! Wait, uh, oops
I shot this like a week ago, then uhhhhhh things happened. I did not expect to write, shoot and release a public video in time for Christmas but that kinda took priority once I realized I could do it, and then I was pretty worn out over The Holiday. So that's why I make several Christmas references in this! Because it wasn't, yet!
As noted near the end of the video, I actually spent some time talking about three weird cameras I have, but by the time I finished editing I'd decided to make them the subject of my next public video and do a much better job of explaining them.
_Then_ I decided to remove one of them from the script for that video, so I might just recut that part and release it for you later. lmao, everything's complicated, etc., thanks for watching!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UF7-TAqVis
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Sprite_tm
Oooh, ooh, I know this! About the HP scanner: The secret to the scanner knowing which way it's dragged is that on the two sides, it has two optical sensors that can sense the direction the thing is going into. If you think those sensors sound a lot like optical mouse sensors, you're correct. However, technically this thing does not use optical mouse sensors. Instead, optical mice use the sensors used in this scanner. These scanners are actually the initial use case HP had when they developed optical flow sensing techniques as used in these scanners, and only as an aside did they figure out that it may be a good idea to also make mice out of them. Microsoft used HPs technique first, and the rest is history.
VCSMaster
They were not always loud, but they were oftentimes very cost reduced OEM drives whose bearings went out. I've had plenty of their drives from the 80s which are just peaches, but take a brand new Fireball AT out of it's shipping container and put about 100 hours on it it will sound like this.
Patrick Moore
Quantum drives were definitely super loud.
qdoggie
Regarding the noise/quantum fireball: When you said the machine was noisy I was hoping it would be one, and called it the moment I heard the drive. I could be wrong on this, but I swear that 90s quantum (, 3.5") drives were ALWAYS noisy like that. I distinctly remember using a family's compaq pentium box when it was mostly new, and the sound of the drive filling the whole room at night. I feel like they always made that noise and they were always hilariously loud. Certainly they're all loud now without a doubt. I don't know why, maybe the type of bearing they used? I don't recall any other drives that make quite the same hum as a quantum. Noisy bearings sure, but never the same sound.
